Tagged: God’s love

  • Can I Be the Samaritan Woman?
    Monday, June 21st, 2021     Sherry Carter     10 Comments

    Can I Be the Samaritan Woman? Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” John 4:28-29 Some of us are familiar with this story. Jesus is tired and thirsty and He sits by a well in the desert of Samaria. Soon a woman comes to fill her water jar and… Read More

  • What More Can I Do?
    Saturday, September 17th, 2016     Sherry Carter     Start the Conversation

    One of the last projects I worked on while I was at NASA was also one of the hardest and most frustrating. The equipment was built by the scientist and, when we received it, it had lots of problems. It didn't pass some of the tests NASA required and we had to redesign several parts. All the while, my supervisors kept hounding me: Did you get that re-design finished? Did you fix the problem with… Read More

  • Shadows of Love
    Friday, June 12th, 2015     Sherry Carter     2 Comments

    For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. Psalm 139:13.  I came across this wrought-iron patio set in a little nook at Ridgecrest Conference Center in North Carolina. I’ve gone there every May for ten years and I'd never seen this pretty little cubby hole. Your eyes might be drawn to the patio set or to the quiet surroundings but my eyes immediately settled on the intricate design of the… Read More

  • The Heart of Thankfulness
    Thursday, November 28th, 2013     Sherry Carter     Start the Conversation

    www.morguefile.com "Give thanks to the LORD Almighty, for the LORD is good; his love endures forever." Jeremiah 33:11 What are you thankful for? All the normal things come to mind: family friends, home, job…But Jeremiah’s words draw us back to the heart of thankfulness. Give thanks for the Lord’s goodness.  His goodness doesn’t lie in the blessings He showers on us.His goodness lies totally in His Son. His grace was and is lived out through… Read More

  • 15 Amazing Verbs
    Saturday, November 16th, 2013     Sherry Carter     Start the Conversation

    I wasn't going to blog today. I finished the 8 Colors of God's Grace and hadn't decided what to do next. Then I read Isaiah 53:3-7 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by… Read More